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Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis.Emma Heming/Instagram
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Frontotemporal dementia is an overarching term for “a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” according toMayo Clinic.
With her new book, Heming Willis hopes to share information she’s learned through her caregiving journey, as well as resources to help others who find themselves in similar situations.
“For me knowledge is power, and building a supportive community around me has been vital," the author says in a statement. “It has brought stability and a certain amount of control back, control that was completely shattered when the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia first came into our family’s world.”The book is intended as a resource for people who have loved ones with dementia, and will include interviews, advice from experts and personal stories from Heming Willis’s own life.“Identifying the right resources to educate and enlighten myself has been powerful and has allowed me the space to continue to move forward in the most positive way so that I can be the best mother, wife, daughter, friend and care partner,” Heming Willis says. “I want to be able to share that with the next person who finds themselves here.”
Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis.Emma Heming Willis/Instagram
Emma Heming Willis/Instagram
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Heming Willis has spoken openlyabout her grieffollowing Willis’s diagnosis. A source also previouslytold PEOPLEthat the family “is all closer than ever.”Heming Willis says of the book, “I am grateful for this unique, healing, and important opportunity to use my voice to raise awareness, encourage, and support others.”
source: people.com
